North Carolina's Experience during the First World War.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shepherd W. McKinley

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--North Carolina.

World War, 1914-1918.

North Carolina.

North Carolina--History--20th century.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 pages): illustrations, maps ;

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 3) 2024

Summary:

As America's involvement in World War I approached its centennial, state-level histories and commemoration of the Great War abounded. While North Carolina's role in the First World War has yet to attract such intense scholarly interest, a much-needed picture of the wartime Tar Heel state has nevertheless begun to emerge from newly published firsthand accounts of the war and sustained attention to the state's wartime politicians. The essays in North Carolina's Experience during the First World War, skillfully edited by Shepherd W. McKinley and Steven Sabol, provide in-depth interpretation of the state's involvement in WWI. As topics range from soldiers and the military, to women and the home front, to politics and labor issues, a detailed picture emerges of the war's influence on the developing modern state and the ascendant bureaucratic social order. As this anthology makes clear, wars provide the opportunity for unsettling old patterns of power and culture. Unlike the Civil War and Second World War, however, the First World War would have relatively little effect on North Carolina's race relations, class arrangements, gender roles, economic order, and political leadership. What changed more dramatically was the relationship between business and government. Indeed, government took an unprecedented place in the fabric of society and the economy as the "war to end all wars" left its indelible mark on the individuals and families who served. SHEPHERD W. MCKINLEY is a senior lecturer in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author of Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold: Phosphate, Fertilizer, and Industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina and North Carolina: New Directions for an Old Land. STEVEN SABOL is an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author of Russian Colonization and the Genesis of Kazak National Consciousness.

Contents:

Introduction / dr Jeffrey J. Crow

1. "Now it is all good and better" : Fayetteville and the origins of Fort Bragg / Jonathan F. Phillips

2. Where Johnnie got his gun: Charlotte and Camp Greene / Kurt D. Geske

3. Planting doughboys on the farm: Hugh MacRae and the soldier settlement movement / J. Vincent Lowery

4. "Bringing home to the trenches" : North Carolina women on the warfront during the Great War / Jerra Jenrette

5. Black North Carolinians as soldiers in the First World War : the first, the proud, the brave / Janet G. Hudson

6. War mobilization and "purposeful loyalty" : North Carolina's Council of Defense / James S. Bissett

7. "There may be a few obstructionists about" : mobilization and resistance in the Germanic counties of Piedmont North Carolina, 1917-1918 / Gary R. Freeze

8. Josephus Daniels, "freedom of the seas," and North Carolina's economy during the Great War / Lee A. Craig

9. "Lest we forget" : the literary works of North Carolina's First World War soldiers / Melissa Edmundson

10. "The means of instilling that spirit of Americanism" : North Carolina, cultural memory, and the First World War / Shannon Bontrager

11. The First and Second World War generations of North Carolina political leadership / Karl E. Campbell

12. "The American Legion will come to my rescue" : disability in North Carolina's Great War / Pamela C. Edwards

13. W.S. Rankin and the creation of public health in North Carolina, 1909-1925 / William P. Brandon and Lauren A. Austin

14. "Doing their big bit": North Carolina's women on the homefront / Angela Robbins

15. Pandemic and war, 1918-1919 : preliminary analysis of new North Carolina influenza data / Lauren A. Austin and William P. Brandon

16. Years of promise : tobacco agriculture and the Great War / Evan P. Bennett

17. Towels, socks, and denim : World War I and North Carolina's cotton mills / Annette Cox

18. "Let me have one of my boys back": class-based mobilization of labor on the Tar Heel homefront / Pamela C. Edwards.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781621904151

1621904156

OCLC:

1035254228